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From: tecot@apple.UUCP (Ed Tecot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.atari.st,comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Better Windows?
Message-ID: <785@apple.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 18-May-87 17:11:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: apple.785
Posted: Mon May 18 17:11:20 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 19-May-87 06:10:16 EDT
References: <8705130929.AA17766@cogsci.berkeley.edu> <1987May14.125051.3647@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: tecot@apple.UUCP (Ed Tecot)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, USA
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In article <1987May14.125051.3647@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> pete@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Peter Santangeli) writes:
>
>In article <8705130929.AA17766@cogsci.berkeley.edu> bryce@COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU (Bryce Nesbitt) writes:
>>In article <> pete@gpu.utcs.totonto.edu
>>>  Wouldn't it make more sence to allow WINDOWS to have there own menu systems?
>>> These could be modal (only the active windows menus available) or semi-modal
>>> (active and desktop available). This kind of scheme would make multitasking
>>> much more intuitive.
>>
>> You just described "Intuition", the Amiga user interface. Each window may
>> be attached to a menu strip.  *poof*.
>
> Then I applaud Intuition. Good Idea. (I have only really used Mac and ST
>a lot.)
>>
>> On the Mac desk accesories can add a extra menu item to the far left of
>> the application's.  Try 'key caps' to see this in action.
> I have seen this in action, but I don't like it. One tends to start to
>expect the DESKTOP menu functions to control your accessory. Which of course
>they usually don't.
>
>>
>>
>>> Now if someone could come up with a graphic rendition of Pipes and
>>> I/O routing, we'd be laughing...
>>
>> Yeaahhhhhaa, that's it. (in my best Saturday Night Live voice)
> Funny how such a visual metaphor is so hard to implement...
>
> One more idea. One of the reasons I often drop down to a command interpreter
>while using my ST is that I can pass multiple files as arguments to many
>programs (ex: cat a.t b.t > c.t).
> Wouldn't it make sense to be able to HIGHLIGHT these multiple files from
>the desktop by single clicking, and then ACTIVATE the program by double
>clicking on it. The result being the filenames (+ volumes/subdirectories?)
>being passed to the programs in argv,argc form.


You just described how the Mac DOES work!  If you select multiple files all
of the same type and double click on one of them, the application will
open all of them.  The restriction is that all of the documents must belong
to one application, UNLESS you also select an application, then double
clicking will open that application with those documents.  Note that only
applications which can open multiple documents will do that (not MacPaint).

						_emt